NowHere : space, time, and modernity

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NowHere : space, time, and modernity

edited by Roger Friedland and Deirdre Boden ; forword by Anthony Giddens

University of California Press, c1994

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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ISBN 9780520080171

Description

The fall of the Berlin wall, the uprising at Tiananmen Square, the war in the Persian Gulf, the conflict in Bosnia - such events have been fundamentally affected by modern technology. As we become instant spectators of war, famine, and revolution, time and space assume new global meanings. This provocative volume presents an eclectic group of contributors who attempt to make sense of the 'now' and the 'here' that define the modern age. The essays, by anthropologists, religionists, geographers, linguists, sociologists, and historians, explore the temporal and spatial facets of social life. Their range is remarkable and includes English landscape painting, talk in corporations, agoraphobic women, the ecological structure of Los Angeles, the cosmology of the Holocaust, and the ritual spaces of Buddhist Japan and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. The editors' introduction addresses the diversity of these empirical concerns and positions them within a rapidly expanding theoretical landscape. David Hockney's striking painting on the book jacket captures the tension between somewhere and everywhere, between space and place, now and just a moment ago - hence 'nowhere' or 'now/here'.

Table of Contents

CONTRIBUTORS: Ann Bermingham Richard Biernacki Deirdre Boden Roger Friedland Saul Friedlander Carol Brooks Gardner Anthony Giddens Allan G. Grapard Richard D. Hecht Stephen Kern Harvey L. Molotch Donald Palmer Paul Rabinow A. F. Robertson Adam Seligman Edward W. Soja
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: pbk ISBN 9780520080188

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The fall of the Berlin wall, the uprising at Tiananmen Square, the war in the Persian Gulf, the conflict in Bosnia--such events have been fundamentally affected by modern technology. As we become instant spectators of war, famine, and revolution, time and space assume new global meanings. This provocative volume presents an eclectic group of contributors who attempt to make sense of the "now" and the "here" that define the modern age. The essays, by anthropologists, religionists, geographers, linguists, sociologists, and historians, explore the temporal and spatial facets of social life. Their range is remarkable and includes English landscape painting, talk in corporations, agoraphobic women, the ecological structure of Los Angeles, the cosmology of the Holocaust, and the ritual spaces of Buddhist Japan and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. The editors' introduction addresses the diversity of these empirical concerns and positions them within a rapidly expanding theoretical landscape. David Hockney's striking painting on the book jacket captures the tension between somewhere and everywhere, between space and place, now and just a moment ago--hence "nowhere" or "now/here."

Table of Contents

CONTRIBUTORS: Ann Bermingham Richard Biernacki Deirdre Boden Roger Friedland Saul Friedlander Carol Brooks Gardner Anthony Giddens Allan G. Grapard Richard D. Hecht Stephen Kern Harvey L. Molotch Donald Palmer Paul Rabinow A. F. Robertson Adam Seligman Edward W. Soja

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